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A6
news
Guardian www.guardian.co.tt Saturday, December 28, 2013
JENSEN LAVENDE
Two teenagers aged 17
and 14 yesterday
appeared in the Port-of-
Spain Magistrates Court
charged with murder,
along with three other
serious offences.
The teens appeared
around 1 pm before Chief
Magistrate Marcia Ayers-
Caesar in the Eighth
Magistrate Court, St Vin-
cent Street, charged with
killing Kendell Thomas
on a date unknown
between December 10
and December 13.
The two are also
charged with kidnapping
Thomas on December 11,
robbing his sister, Sheena
Charles, of a gold chain
and robbing Charles
friend Celia Lyons of a
chain and pendant.
In the courtroom, the
14-year-old had his
mother standing at his
side in the prisoners
dock while the 17-year-
old s sister stood behind
him outside the dock.
The teens attorney
Fareed Ali raised con-
cerns about their time in
police custody from
December 11 to yesterday.
The older teen was kept
at Belmont Police Station
and the younger at
Woodbrook Police Sta-
tion.
Ali said the police are
fully aware of the treat-
ment that suspects ought
to be given while in their
care, yet they fail to do
so. Ali was referring to
what he called the "Rolls
Royce treatment" of the
14-year-old, who, while
at the police station, was
allowed to bathe every
day and brush his teeth.
He added that on Christ-
mas and Boxing Day the
teen was allowed to
watch DVDs in the office
of Insp Montrichard.
Ali told the Chief
Magistrate that while he
did not expect his other
client to watch DVDs, he
certainly could have been
allowed to bathe daily as
well instead of being per-
mitted only three baths
over the 16 days he was
in custody.
The attorney claimed
his 17-year-old client was
beaten, choked, cuffed in
the stomach and beaten
by police with a gun butt
in the head. Some time
during his detention, Ali
said, an officer placed his
client in a police van and
took him to El Socorro,
where he was pistol-
whipped, kicked and
slapped. One officer, he
said, placed his foot on
his client s head and fired
a shot to the ground,
threatening to kill him.
Ali s submission was
cut short by court pros-
ecutor Sgt Kelston Pope,
who said the appropriate
time for it was at a later
date. He asked both the
Chief Magistrate and the
media in court to ignore
Ali s remarks, saying they
could be prejudicial in a
later stage.
Ayers-Caesar
adjourned the matters to
January 21 and remanded
the younger of the two
teens to the St Michael s
Home for Boys, Belmont,
and the older to the
Youth Training Centre at
Golden Grove, Arouca.
JENSEN LAVENDE
Boxing Day murder victim
Neil Williams, who lived in
Tobago, and returned to share
holiday greetings with relatives
in Laventille, Port-of-Spain,
was gunned down for standing
on the wrong side of the road.
The 35-year-old, a contractor
from Castara Village, Tobago,
grew up in the Laventille area
but migrated to Tobago for a
better life.
Relatives said Williams, alias
"Pooney," was a casualty of an
"up the hill versus down the
hill" war in Trou Macaque. The
relatives spoke to the media out-
side the Forensic Science Centre,
St James, yesterday.
Williams was shot dead while
liming near the Trou Macaque
Community Centre around 1
pm. Two gunmen approached
a group he was with and with-
out warning opened fire, police
said.
Williams, who had no chil-
dren, would joke about having
children with several women
because he was a "lover boy,"
the relatives said, adding he was
loved by the ladies, and he
enjoyed it.
"He wasn t no badman, no
bad boy, nothing. Everything he
had, he worked for it.
"See how he died? It is noth-
ing but being in the wrong place
at the wrong time. These chil-
dren in Laventille right now
going through a war, the top of
the hill warring with the people
at the bottom.
"That is madness and Neil get
caught in the crossfire," the rel-
atives said.
Blind man shot dead
The family of another man,
Curtis Lewis, who was shot dead
on Boxing Day at Trou Macaque,
also spoke with members of the
media at the Forensic Science
Centre. Allison Figaro, the sister
of Lewis, 44, said her brother
was very independent, even
though he was blind.
Figaro said her brother devel-
oped an eye infection that
caused him to lose the sight in
both eyes.
"My brother was blind and
he was loud. Oh God, he was
loud. You could hear his mouth
from a mile away. Everybody in
the area knew him and he was
a real down-to-earth person.
Always laughing and would have
you in good spirits," Figaro said.
Lewis was shot dead while on
his way home on Boxing Day.
Police reports are that around
2 pm residents of Trou Macaque
heard gunshots and found Lewis
in a pool of blood in a track
leading to his home.
Body in drain identified
In an unrelated incident, the
body of a man found in a drain
in Laventille last Saturday has
been identified as that of 19-
year-old Brandon Alexander.
Around 8 pm last Saturday,
members of the Inter-Agency
Task Force (IATF) were on patrol
along Laventille Road,Laventille,
when they came across the body
lying in a pool of blood in a
track near St Barbs. The man
had gunshot wounds to the
head.
A female relative of Alexander
said he was a loving person,
though he "had his mishaps
here and there" and had been
in trouble with the law a few
times. The woman said in his
last days on earth Alexander
was trying to change, as he was
behaving and reconnecting with
his family.
"He was trying to be bet-
ter...As to why anyone would
kill him, I don t know," she said.
"He s from Maloney. I don t
even now what he was doing up
there. He used to tell us he was
going by a female friend of his.
But nothing more than that. He
was somewhat secretive."
The murder toll now stands
at 402, according to the Homi-
cide Bureau.
Laventille killings continue...
Boxing Day victim
caught in crossfire
Curtis Lewis ...shot dead
Two teens
in court for
Beetham
maxi murder
Kendell Thomas ...victim
Passersby witnessed an unusual site yesterday when Trade, Industry and
Investment Minister Vasant Bharath, right, stopped to make a purchase from
a street vendor on South Quay, Port-of-Spain. PHOTO: BRIAN NG FATT
TRADE-OFF